Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar. Prime Minister Tony Abbott will attend a cricket clinic with Tendulkar and Australian cricketers Adam Gilchrist and Brett Lee while in India. Photo: AFP

"He will meet three very prominent cricketers over there, Sachin Tendulkar, Adam Gilchrist and Brett Lee," said Sanjay Bhattacharya, a senior official at India's Ministry of External Affairs. "I believe they are organising a cricket camp for a bunch of kids over there and they will join in."

Mr Bhattacharya said India was also hoping to secure an exhibition of Don Bradman memorabilia to tour India next year while Australia and New Zealand are hosting the Cricket World Cup.

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"It would be interesting, if at that time or around that sometime next year, the Don Bradman memorabilia can go around in India. We've working on that," Mr Bhattacharya said, adding that cricket would remain a very strong bond between Australia and India.

With India already a major importer of Australian commodities, Mr Bhattacharya said that Australia could also become a major supplier of uranium.

"We've had five rounds of (Civil Nuclear Energy) negotiations which were very productive," he said. "Our practice is usually to announce the agreements as they are signed. We will have a signing ceremony, which we hope (will) be on the 5th of September."

With a large delegation of 130 Australian businessmen accompanying Mr Abbott on the visit, Mr Bhattacharya said developing trade and business ties would be a major part of Mr Abbott's visit.

Mr Bhattacharya also provided an update on the 157 Tamil asylum seekers that left India by boat on June 12 and were later intercepted by the Australian navy and held at sea before eventually being transported to the Pacific island of Nauru.

"We had intense discussions with the Australians on that. In fact, the Australian Immigration Minister (Scott Morrison) had visited India for that purpose," Mr Bhattacharya said.

"It was found that of the list of 157 that they had had about 17 individuals who were normally listed as Indians but the Australians said that they may not be; the rest were all Sri Lankans. We told them that we would be very open to having all Indians back if we could establish their citizenship. Unfortunately, these people were not in a position to give consular access to us to ascertain their citizenship."